alluvial

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In Hatay, the worst-hit province, many settlements there were built on risky alluvial ground.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 5, 2024

From Zabriskie Point, visitors can survey a wonderland of rock formations and alluvial flow, and it’s just about impossible to tell what happened last week from what happened last century.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2023

“The weaker alluvial sediments can amplify shaking, and mountains are vulnerable to landsliding, including along the roads that lead to mountain villages.”

From National Geographic • Sep. 11, 2023

Whereas the unpredictable flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in southern Mesopotamia commonly brought destruction along with fresh alluvial deposits, the Nile’s summer flooding, predictable as clockwork, brought only welcome deposits of rich sediment.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

The good news was that the flooding deposited rich, alluvial silt all over the fields, making the Nile delta the richest farmland in the ancient world.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife